Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science

Center for European Integration

Research Director

Short CV

Tanja A. Börzel is professor of political science and holds the chair for European Integration at the Freie Universität Berlin. She received her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy in 1999. From 1999 to 2004, she conducted her research and taught at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the University Heidelberg.

Her research focus and teaching experience lie in the field of institutional theory and Governance, European Integration, and Comparative Politics with a focus on Western and Southern Europe. She mainly concentrates on questions of institutional change as a result of Europeanization as well as on the diffusion of European ideas and policies within and outside of the EU. Since 2009 she has been leading the Kolleg-Forschergruppe (KFG) "The Transformative Power of Europe" together with Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse and she is project coordinator of the FP-7 research project "Maximizing the Enlargement Capacity of the European Union".

Edited volumes

co-edited with Dimitrova, A./Schimmelfennig, F. 2017: Enlargement and Integration Capacity. Special Issue of Journal of European Public Policy 24/2.

co-edited with Fagan, A. 2016: Environmental Governance in South East Europe and the Western Balkans: Reassessing the Transformative Power of Europe. Special Issue of Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy.

co-edited with Dandashly, A./Risse, T. 2014: Responses to the Arab Spring – The EU in Comparative Perspective. Special Issue of the Journal of European Integration.

co-edited with Solingen, E. 2014: The Politics of International and Regional Diffusion. Special Issue of International Studies Review 16/2.

co-edited with Langbein, J. 2013: Convergence without Accession? Explaining Policy Change in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood. Special Issue of Europe-Asia Studies 65/4, also published 2014 with Routledge: London.

co-edited with Risse, T. 2012: From Europeanization to Diffusion. Special Issue of West European Politics 35/1.

2010: Civil Society on the Rise? EU Enlargement and Societal Mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe. Special Issue of Acta Politica.

2009: Coping with Accession to the European Union. New Modes of Environmental Governance, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.

Peer reviewed articles and book chapters

co-authored with Lebanidze, B. 2017: 'The Transformative Power of Europe' beyond Enlargement: The EU’s Performance in Promoting Democracy in its Neighbourhood, in: East European Politics 33/1, 17-35.

co-authored with Schimmelfennig, F. 2017: Coming Together or Drifting Apart? The EU’s Political Integration Capacity in New Members, Accession Candidates, and Eastern Neighbourhood Countries, in: Journal of European Public Policy 24/2, 278-296.

co-authored with Sedelmeier, U. 2017: Larger and more Law-abiding? The Impact of Enlargement on Compliance in the European Union, in: Journal of European Public Policy 24/2, 197-217.

co-authored with van Hüllen, V. 2014: One Voice, One Message, but Conflicting Goals. Cohesiveness and Consistency in the European Neighbourhood Policy, in: Journal of European Public Policy 21/7, 1033-1049.